2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards

GSN 2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards Recipients
Vendors of Physical Security Products and Solutions
HID Global –
2014 Winner
Awards Category:
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Physical Security Access Control & Identification
Name of Nominated Product, Service,
or Program:
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pivCLASS 4.3
Reason this entry deserves to win:
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Fully tested by the U.S. General Services Administration
for compliance with FICAM, Federal Identity Credential
and Access Management programs, pivCLASS ® 4.3 is the
first GSA FICAM Certified Validation System available in
the security market today. The extensive Government
portfolio of credential authentication solutions enables
customers to comply with government physical access
control system (PACS) mandates, outlined in HSPD-12
and FIPS 201, to PIV-enable a PACS. By providing an
end-to-end solution that eliminates the need to rip and
replace the existing access control infrastructures, the
portfolio’s extensive range of Personal Identity Verification
(PIV) solutions allow agencies to use PIV-enabled
cards for strong PKI-based validation for physical access.
With its addition of the pivCLASS MultiPACS software to
the pivCLASS portfolio it is significantly easier for large
government agencies and organizations to provision
identities across many different, unconnected access
control systems located throughout geographically dis-
persed operations. The software is designed to streamline
and simplify the process of registering Personal
Identity Verification (PIV) credentials into multiple,
disparate physical access control systems (PACS). A key
element of HID Global’s expanded pivCLASS portfolio
of FIPS 201-based credential registration and verification
solutions, MultiPACS was created for government
agencies that commonly operate in numerous buildings
in several geographic areas, using many different PACS
supplied by multiple vendors No other vendor currently
offers a complete portfolio that provides authentication
at both the enrollment function and at the point of
access (e.g., door), registration of validated credentials
into over 30 different PACS head-end products, and a
variety of interoperable readers and reader form factors
including mobile handhelds. Other vendors generally
provide either the readers or software for the PACS
head-end enrollment function. HID is the only vendor
that offers this complete FIPS 201 solution from a single
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